When Mike Babcock was ultimately introduced as the Head Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, many pointed to the former Stanley Cup winner and two-time Olympic Gold Medallist as the Leafs' saviour.

Some excited, some wary, and some just wondering how exactly Mike Babcock became a Maple Leaf, you'd better bet that the pressure couldn't be higher for him.

But as a presumed reader of the Toronto media, you've probably heard that line before. There's an odd obsession that one individual person in a team sport should be tasked with bringing the success. Unless you're LeBron James, it's not exactly an easy task to do. Yet the story is almost always the exact same when the new guy comes into town.

All of the following names have been hailed at one time or another the saviour of the Leafs from fans, media, or both. Why is that? What's with this city and this team's weird obsession of finding "the right guy" instead of "the right guys"?

For the second time in our First Round Target series we visit
the bustling metropolis of Waterloo, Iowa. Justin Fisher profiled the Waterloo
Blackhawk’s high scoring winger, Brock
Boeser, now we’ll take a look at even more all over the board playmaking
center, Thomas Novak.

Novak’s committed to the University of Minnesota next season
and certainly isn’t a risk for jumping into the NHL right away, so you can
count on him attending. He would provide the Leafs with the opportunity to
develop a playmaking center through one of the better NCAA hockey programs, and
that may be necessary since although he’s highly touted, Novak also looks like he
has some areas still in need of development.

Not really much of a secret around these parts, but the writers of The Leafs Nation are pretty big fans of Kyle Dubas even though he stole our managing editor away from us. With that it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that when Kyle speaks we are anxious to hear what he has to say.

Today Craig Custance put up a story on whether or not teams can identify clutch players when building their rosters (behind the ESPN insider paywall), while I'm sure you can guess what Kyle's thoughts are on players being clutch, his answers are wonderful and perfect, and it's worth sharing a snippet or two before you go out to become ESPN insiders members to read the rest.